SEO Link Monster - Has anyone tried it?

This is just a blog network right? Like BMR?

I wonder how they justify that price tag? It seems very steep when there are other options out there.

I did sit in on the webinar last night and it was funny. All the talk about building the networks was super accurate but what she didn't mention was that building your own network of sites is much more effective than having a mass network that hundreds or thousands of people use and spits out tons of links every day.

Not saying this doesn't work as I have not tried it but I'd be interested to see if it truly is worth the $147/month to send out spun content to a blog network.

Currently I belong to a few and I found that the tight restrictions on a network like BMR has kept the network integrity higher and produced better results for me.

The thing I liked most about this network was the domain age diversity - they've got a real good mix in there.

The usefulness of networks like these come in helping you fine tune anchor text diversity and focus (to help you rank for a specific keyword), but most importantly getting a lot of links to a domain from different C-class IP domains.

Lots of C class subnet links is the MAJOR ranking factor for a website and countless test have shown that when it comes to link building.

As always I recommend that you don't pump junk content into networks like these, and make sure that you have other ways to get links too (linkbait being my favorite) so that you have good link diversity - and don't be too aggressive with any one strategy. I've found that the best way to rank higher.

This is a higher price tag so it won't be for everyone. If you have a good few sites (or plan to build them), then networks like these are great for pumping up your link diversity and C-class IP count to get you higher rankings. Many pro SEOs tend to jump on multiple networks like these which gives them a major competitive advantage.

SEOLinkMonster stands out for its high indexing rate and aged domains.

It does look good. I'm gonna jump on board tomorrow and give it a bash.

James Scholes

I know Brad will be in here shortly to answer many questions that come up, so to save time, maybe I'll ask some here (since I'm curious) and everyone can also get responses.

1) Is this using any of the same sites from the SEO Link Vine Network?

2) Are these sites the same / similar to the Elite SEO Link Vine Networks? If not...how do they compare vs the Elite network?

3) How does the submission process differ from SEOLV--one of the main complaints being that articles would go for weeks/months at a time with very few distributions made

4) Is it possible to create sub-accounts for outsourcers to login and submit articles through?

Looks great either way, just curious (hard to keep up with the weekly blog network launches these days, lol)

Cheers,

~Dexx

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Pearson

It looks like a fabulous service and a couple of Warriors that have NEVER led me wrong on a product are promoting this, so it has my attention. My question is, with 14 submissions per day, realistically, how many sites can benefit from this service? Obviously it will depend on competition, but I would need to be able to target several sites to justify the cost.

Is there an option to add additional submissions for additional cost in the future (without paying full price for a second membership)?

stev,

Yes there is policing on crap content and violaters will get a quick boot! And what we have discovered is that the MOST important thing when using blog networks like this is to make sure the quality of YOUR content wrapping the link is well written. Yes you can spin, but make it good, and yes you get submission stats and reports. Full articles are posted on homepage and there are currently 5000 sites and as we speak we are scaling to 10,000 (and we'll be adding even more later), so you will not hit the same blog for two years.

We're building a website right now and maybe I'm going to try that,. hope it's effective..

Hi Matt

It'd be great if there were some examples of best practice for article submission based on the type of site (i.e. new, monster) etc...

Prob not the place for it, but i did pay, get access and now it says my email address isn't correct even though i have both the clickbank receipt email and confirmation email from brad with it in it.

Look forward to trying it when i can get access.

Dan

Hey Matt, any chance of seeing a screenshot or demo video of the submission form to see what the process looks like (or the format it looks for content to be entered in)?

Also is there any pricing plans for members who'd like to submit more content / receive more links? (i.e. those promoting multiple websites in different niches)

If I understand correctly its 1 article a day (from the queue) sent out to 14 sites, and each article can have 3 backlinks in it (what the word requirement for an article to receive 3 links...any minimums?)

~Dexx

Okay, I've just pinched my nose and jumped in... See how it goes!

James Scholes

Just in and get 14 links yesterday

The domains are ages but no pagerank

And they are not be indexed when I search the domain in Google (site:domainname) .

I dont know is it working or not?

Will still try and tracking rank in 30 days.

Alex

I'm interested in this.
Did I get this right:

You get 14 publishes per day, is this a minimum or a set amound?
Are all those 14 publishes seperate articles or 14 versions of a spun article?
What seperates SEO Link Monster from ALN, AR, BMR etc.?

Let's say I have 5 new sites, how would you go about setting up articles for them?
From what I just read it's borderline science

Thanks!
Just an inch away from signing up! The price is steep, but hopefully worth it.
Seems I've been doing it all wrong for new sites... Never too old to learn!

Just an inch away from giving it a try. Seems really great.

Hey Matt,

This work with anchor text in other languages or must be in english?
same for content

Thank you
adrian

Matt:

I am very interested in SEO Link Monster -- but I do have a couple concerns. You allow spun content. Let's face it, spun content is almost always crap content. If you allow a bunch of spun content on your properties, are you concerned at all about your properties losing authority and Google PR because of the inferior content on the sites?

Also, from what I understand some of Dori's networks have been hammered by Google in the past. What measures are being put in place to insure that this does not happen with SEO Link Monster?

I know Dan Theis and Leslie Rohde (two guys who know quite a bit about SEO) are not big fans of blog networks. From what I understand Dan and Leslie believe that Google will be going after blog networks sometime soon. Are Dan and Leslie just paranoid or do they have good reason to feel the way they do?

Matt -- you, Brad and Dori know a ton about SEO and I do appreciate the expertise the three of you have in this area. I'd really like to get SEO Link Monster and start realizing some of the benefits of your service. However, I do have some concerns about the potential risks involved.

Matt, I'd love your thoughts on this. Any input you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Jon

Hey Matt, sorry if I missed this in a previous answer, but if we only upload ONE article each day, that article still gets submitted to 14 sites correct?

We don't need 14 different articles to be able to be published the 14 times? (Just wanted to double check)

I'd be using high quality spun content, so I'm not concerned about any red flags over quality...just quantity, heh

~Dexx

Hi All,

After reading many reviews about BMR, i was going to buy it but yesterday received email from Brad about his new launch Seo Link Monster.

So i decided to give it a try..

I always love to read case studies, so though of writing it for others this time.

I am starting this case study on 6 months old website promoting amazon product.

Website Details :-

1. 6 months old domain
2. PR 1
3. EMD .net
4. Exact Search :- 1300
5. Current Position :- 20, 2nd Page

SEO Link Monster :-

1. Submitted 3 articles yesterday. ( 3 links/ article )
2. Total :- 9 links/ Main keyword.

Now waiting for links to get distributed and then indexation.


I will keep all of you updated with this case study.


If any queries post here...please don't PM.

Update :-

All posts where distributed to PR1 - PR2 - PR0 blogs.

But only few posts url got indexed by search engines till now.

Lets see if it boosts my SERP or not.

I have a quick question about the number of articles posted.

You say that "we do guarantee the 14 publishes per day.". Is this per article? So for example, I have 10 websites. I post an article for each site, with links in them to the system. Each day each article is going to be posted to 14 sites? OR all 10 articles will be posted to 14 sites? If it's the first example, then I would have a total of 140 new links created each day.

Just making sure that I'm not only getting 14 total each day and thus setting up all my sites in the system would be pointless.

Thanks!

I'm a member of Vitavee ultra spinnable articles. Can SEO Link Monster take Ultra Spinnable articles or just one level spun articles? Thanks.

Joined yesterday, submitted 4 articles, approximately 24 hours ago however I only show 6 publishes.
But my main concern is that all of the six articles are on sites using the very exact WP theme, with the exact same categories.
That's not very reassuring in terms of 'integrity of the network'!
Cam Matt or anybody else from SLM address this?

Thanks

Matt, my post count is not enough to reply to your message. Can u pm me?

marcolav and MyBizDeal, I sent you guys a PM asking for a couple things. Please reply there since this is a "tech question".

thanks!

BigSkeeze, just sent you a PM.

Matt

For now I get 64 backlinks.

But all domains are not indexed by google

All are no pagerank, just aged (6 months ~ 2 years).

I submitted ticket 2 days ago, still not get any reply.

I have had SEOLM for 4 days now and here are the results of the SEOLM distribution report

Day 1, 2 and 3

15 pr 0
11 pr 1
10 pr 2
1 pr 3
4 threats detected -couldn't access article to determine page rank
1 porn site- url is spermswapchicks.com threat detected-couldn't access--- wonder why are there porn sites in this network?

Day 4 (today)
no articles have been published



I submitted 3 tickets the past 3 days and have not yet received a response

David

Hi Matt, can i use My Article Network spin format on SEo Link Monster?

For example :
Spin level 1 : { ~ }
Spin level 2 : [ | ]

Thanks,
Adi

Now that the affiliate craze has settled down the actual 'normal' users seem to come back with mixed results.

15 pr 0
11 pr 1
10 pr 2
1 pr 3

That's hardly impressive :/
Definitely -not- worth 147$ for me.

I have opened 2 support tickets, first one since 3 days ago and till today there is not a single response and despite submitting 20 articles, I can only see some of my articles distributed to only 7 sites and 1 of the sites is not even working when I click on it (Oops! Page Not Found)..

I am hoping that all these issues will be ironed out soon and the support team really need to be more responsive to tickets. I will provide another review soon in a week's time.

Just to give everyone a quick update...

It looks like there were a few sites that were responding slower than normal, so it was putting some strain on one of the MANY servers that our sites are on. So it was causing a "back up" of some posts for some users. This did not affect every user since posts are made to other sites not on those same servers. I've been notified by our programming team that it has been sorted out and should be working fine now.

Regarding the lack of response to support tickets... to be honest, I'm really surprised to hear this, as we take customer service very seriously, and always have. I do know that there are a lot of general questions in the support desk, but I'm surprised to hear that it's taking so long for our staff to respond to the tickets. We are going to have a meeting with our support staff and make sure they are responding quicker. This is unacceptable to us.

If you have submitted a ticket and it wasn't responded to within 24 hours, please know that we're on it, and the staff will get on the ball, as customers are #1.

thanks
Matt

I am thinking that a lot needs to be addressed with this system and network before it lives up to its hype. I have asked about PR of the sites as all but one of mine was N/A and none of them were indexed YET. I have sent in my support tickets, pm all parties on WF and yet still nothing. I think a lot of us were eager to get in on something based on the participating parties and their past reputation but this so far is a bust.

Did I mention that the SEO Nitro package I'm on costs $497 per month... ouch!

i'd like to see some positive results here too. Past SEOLV user and Nitro user and although i dont like to complain - i have to agree with FreeStuffFinder. The results don't live up to the marketing and hype and the cost. Had much better results via other methods.

Still, when i got the email from Brad i wanted to take a fresh new look.

Hopefully the issues get ironed out soon.

FreeStuff - you're not still paying that tho right?

I personally am a member of several private blog networks. They work very well and they work very well if strict quality control measures are in place. The question is how well is SEO Link Monster going to be monitored?

@frestufffinder

About the deindex sites in SeoNitro, we promise 500 PR sites but in actuallity we have that PLUS another 1500 sites to manually link from and then an additional 500 site LOW GRADE network for all types of different linking stratigies.

We keep non-index sites in the manual network "on purpose" for seo-pros who know that getting links from them are part of the game.

We do however take any non-indexed sites out of our automation networks.

I am sorry that your experience was not the same as those customers that stay with me for years, because it does work, and it works well.

And please, if you want a refund, just ask us, I will be more then happy to accomodate. There is no need to go to the merchant and making it difficult for all involved.

@mybizdeal, your ticket has been esculated to our programmer.

@seankaye, Thank You!! And yes, the same EXACT people/staff are managing and supporting SeoLinkMonster.

Since the launch and the huge exposure that SeoLinkMonster has recieved, we have been hit hard with 1000s of questions from general seo advice to more serious programming issues.

We work hard on giving each question the attention it deservers, and at times like this last week, it has totally overwhelmed our 4 person full-time support staff.

Our normal 1-4 hour support ticket turn around turned into an embarressing 48 hour turn around! Everyone is on deck and we are down to a 24 hour turnaround and hopeing to be back to a 1-4 hour turn by the end of next week.

We are also having a live webinar in the meantime to answer customer questions to help with the support load.

Another thing I want to address here is the sites that some of the posters have found to be not indexed in SEOLinkMonster. We have spent a ton of time researching that as ALL our sites are purchased with PR, AGE and at least 1 page already in the index. So it was really baffeling, but what we found was in these "sets" of sites all occured on 1 particular host. =:0

So, we are now in the process of moving those sites OUT of the network, and rehosting thos sites on new hosts. They will not be returned to the network until they are re-indexed.

We are also in the process of moving all customers that were being fed into those "sets" into new "sets."

If you have found that YOU were part of the group that were fed into one of the affected "sets", I will be happy to extend your trial and give you a free month to thank you for your patience.

I agree with seankay that blog networks are a long haul strategy. They work incredibly well when intermixed with other methods and mixing tageted keyword links with crap links.

I hope that hopes!

Respectfully,
Dori Friend

Update :-

NO SERP Improvement yet..

Oh c'mon... They've only just opened their doors.

You'll need at least month to start seeing an improvement. Btw, are you using their free Rankerizer? It'll allow you to track the progress of your site's ranking from the day you start using it so make sure to use it asap.

James Scholes

I still cant even get access to the bloody thing

i created a small video to better explain it

Just go through Clickbank, they'll give you it... No questions asked.

I myself, am quite happy so far. Everything working as advertised at my end and my pages are getting indexed surprisingly fast.

I'll be assessing my rankings just before my next payment to see if it's worthwhile for me to stay a member.

James Scholes

But I will admit... The helpdesk currently sucks! I submitted a ticket a few days ago and it's yet to be answered. Thankfully I figured it out myself and everything working fine.

However I do believe this is "kinda" understandable as they're in launch mode so to speak. Just as long they get on top of it quickly and stay on top... I'm happy.

James Scholes

@xxxJamesxxx, thank you!

@nik0, in my experience from doing all types of linking, it depends on the market and keyword! For a long tail, results are faster and more dramatic, for a very competitive keyword, much longer just to move 1 spot!

Also, what is your comparative data to make a claim rating SLM to the others?

@freestuffinder, You are NOT being ignored at the support desk, like I explain above, we are embarresly behind, but no one is ever ignored! Please PM me your identity so I CAN look up your ticket and get you that refund.

We are also finding post panda that Google is able to detect spun content and that seems to be the common denominator no matte where the posts are going that is causing the Google email. If this is the case in your clients case, then I would sincerely be interested to know.

@Thoma$

We do NOT currently have a indexer system in place. All indexing is occurring naturally. But this does not mean we won't put an induing program in place in the future as I am currently looking at different system.

Seriously, I looked at the time notations in the ticket system and we were at 24 hours, and yes, I agree, more then that isn't good, and embarrasses me!! :-(

i bought this product on the day of release and still cant access it

been 4 days since i received a reply from SEO Nitro support

They was selling a indexer that plugs into SEO Link Monster as one of the upsells.

Like what Thoma$ said, for the price, it would be nice to have that built in as default.

James Scholes

nice one, will i be reimbursed for the days i didnt get access to the service?


Here is my first day review

There is one major footprint which I have already noted in this thread and mentioned in support tickets as well, which has been my main reason for asking for a refund:
the sites are ALL using the very same WP theme=
https://www.elance.com/samples/police-line/23267962/

I have 46 posts in the system, and all 46 are on blogs using this very same theme, how's that for a footprint??

high_plains_drifter, I just sent you a PM. Can you check that and respond to me there? It's easier to talk about this individual issue that way. thanks!

Absolute garbage network. Joined to check out the sites, looks like most of them are redundant Nitro sites or aged domains with a bit of page rank; either way the sites are of very poor quality (appear spammy) with spurious named URL's. If you think posting spun articles to this network will rank your sites think again.
Hats off to the people behind this though, I'm sure they will make tons of cash from people signing up!

I would like to leave a comment on the problems people were having with the support. I, too, submitted a ticket and heard nothing back from them. I ended up PM'ing the owners of the system here on WF. Within minutes of that, I got a response to my problems. Within a couple of hours, I was good to go.

Look, the fact of the matter is that they rolled out a new product and had problems with it. They certainly aren't the first that have had those problems, and certainly won't be the last. Most of us here know the reputation of Dori and the Callen brothers, and were eagerly looking forward to this. Could they have possibly thought of all the problems that would arise in the rollout...no they couldn't.

I think they have done a very good job getting things straightened out, since I (and probably a lot of you) have bought things in here with much worse problems.

As far as results, it is still too early to tell. As far as what I was looking for, and what was advertised, it does that. I am looking forward to submitting more articles and getting more links.

Good luck all,
Brad

Link Monster is way too pricey in my opinion. This is also from the Callen brothers who seem to be decent guy, but I wasn't too impressed with SEO Link Vine which is also one of their blog networks. I subscribed to SEO Link Vine last year and ended up canceling because none of my articles ever got distributed. Maybe it was just me, but I've never had that problem with other blog networks that I subscribe to.

The argument here is which is more effective, spun content or truly unique content.
There is no argument that the higher the PR sites containing backlins, the better. Seeing only PR0 to PR2 sites on the SEOLM network so far with the same monthly subscription price as Linkvana (which gives you PR2 to PR5 links), makes me think that LV is the better deal.
But, you know what they say.. the proof is in the pudding - or ranking.
I am testing both right now and will see which one I like better.

thanks for all the valuable input here!

I posted this in the other thread and thought it belongs here to so here is my review of my first week of using SEO Link Monster

I've got to say i LOVE it so far. It's VERRRRRRRRRRY easy to use, too easy in fact. I Have been a member since day 1, and I have seen some of my sites rankings increase already. One of my sites was NOT in the top 10 pages (though it used to be) and using NOTHING but SEO Link Monster, I've got it back to #3 organically in google now for a HUGE product that is going to be announced later this year.

Point is, this is a medium competitive term already and SEO link monster is working very nicely. Even better - it's AUTOMATED. You enter your article, and it's just hands off.

I got pretty excited after seeing this jump in just over a week - so I just spent 30 minutes adding articles/content for 10 or 12 more of my campaigns. I HIGHLY recommend this.

Jeff Lenney

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../seorawrrr.jpg <---Quick Members area screen shot showing the new campaigns I added today. Seriously loving this guys, cant say enough good things about it.

I, too, have used it since day 1 and have yet to see any jumps. Hoping it will be soon. It is very easy to use.

The indexing rates seemed way too good to be true. Today I check my 238 live posts with SEO Link Monster and oh surprise... only 43 out of 238 are still indexed, meaning most of my posts have actually been DEINDEXED by Google.

Ok sometimes for some reason Scrapebox can't be trusted, there is something wrong with proxies etc... so I check manually four of the blogs with the command site:"www.website.com" and all four of them have been completely deindexed by Google... sure isn't going to do any good to my websites.

You guys better come up with a good explanation.

@Thomas, that's really strange. The system has only been open for 2 weeks so getting 283 posts published seems a bit high to be indexed already since we provide 14 posts per day to users. Anyway... I just sent you a PM.

My sites have gone down a spot or two in rank. I am hoping this changes FAST. I see no improvement.

Im glad I waited. Once again the hype seemed to be based on commission, not function.
I'll keep an eye on this thread.

I used this for my Twitter Market site and went from the 1st page to #1 in about two weeks. I am so new at this so this was a thrill but take my success with a grain of salt since I am a newbie. However, all 3 bigs Google, Yahoo and Bing rank me #1.

I hate leaving negative reviews of services on here, but I feel like I need to let everyone know what's going on with SEO Link Monster for me right now.

Yes, the sites in the network are mostly PR0 (which has been explained away as the Godaddy parking curse), but that's not even the biggest problem right now.

I signed up for SEO Link Monster from day one, and have now seen a startling trend. Not only are my article pages being deindexed, but entire sites within the SEO Link Monster network.

I checked all 240+ sites with scrapebox and then couldn't believe that almost EVERY article page was deindexed so I checked them manually and saw every site that I checked was deindexed in Google.

Looks like quality control was not exactly a top priority for this network, and it's showing. I have lost any rankings that I had from this service and must call it a bust at the moment, which is a shame because I really wanted to add this service into my arsenal. But for the extra $147 a month, there are MUCH better options, and no I'm not selling anything.

I hope they get things straightened out, but when sites start getting deindexed like this it can take a LONG time to recover and start over again.

I was going to check this out but seems to risky now. For $147 a month there should not be this many negative factors. I use BMR now and love it and that is half the cost and I have not seen one problem thus far after my 6 months of use.

Can anyone who is using SEO Link Monster find their posts indexed by doing a quotes search for the titles of their articles? (E.g. "Article Title")

When I first started using this link network it was freaking awesome. The first few days my sites would move up after almost every posting. And I could find my posts listed in Google. It was the best network I had ever used.

However, last night I started doing quotes searches on all my titles and can't seem to find a single post indexed in Google anymore. My sites are no longer moving up and many are even dropping spots which would make sense if the sites aren't being indexed and/or have been de-indexed.

It's a big red flag when I can't find my posts in Google. And I don't seem to be the only one. (See jonoman1's post above)

I don't know what has happened, but I was wondering if anyone else out there was experiencing something similar or if anyone else was able to find most of their posts doing a quotes search on the title.

I really hope this thing starts working like it was in the very beginning because it was killer the first few days. Now I'm not really sure what to think...

Very unhappy.

I signed up on the first webinar. We were promised a bonus "extra 100 sites" that we, as first joiners, would have that others wouldn't. I haven't seen anything about it since.

More critically, when I first started submitting articles, SEOLM would show you the links were they were placed. After a few days, I'd randomly check them, and I would find link after link going to an empty 404 page. When I contacted support, I was first told "our programmers are aware of this problem and are working on it".

When I followed up days later, I was told "don't worry, your links are there, it's a bug in the reporting that appends 'seolinkmonster' to the url". None of my url's had anything appended, I could get to the site, but there was no article there - or anything else.

Then I was told, don't worry your links are being distributed. Really, we don't even have to show you the links, no other service will do that".

Lo & behold, SEOLM no longer shows you the links where your articles are supposed to be. Why? It's a trivial matter. Except if there are problems with the network and you aren't reliably getting your links.

Now, the system no longer shows you the links. Instead, you get a table showing: Article Title, # of links in article, Anchor Texts Used, Date Published, Age of Site, and Thumbnail....

Except, most of mine show "n/a" for # of links and anchor text. Besides, why wouldn't you show the links, especially if you're showing all that? Only reason I can think of - the system isn't reliable, and many links aren't happening.

It's a pity, I thought of Brad Callen as one of the 'good guys'. Unfortunately, as the 'front man' for this, I've lost my respect. They're still marketing the heck out of SEOLM - while those of us who signed up sit with a half-baked product.

I'll be refunding.

Kim

Hi Kim, I'll try to address each of your issues here and be as transparent as possible...

@webinar bonus... Dori mentiond this a few times at the end of the webinar about how to get the bonus and when it would be delivered. The scheduled time frame is for March. It takes a little while to create the network of bonus sites properly. We had to purchase additional domains and create a new subset of sites specifically for these bonus users. Submit a ticket to our support dept in mid-March with a copy of your clickbank receipt, asking about this bonus.

About the 404 page... this showed up because of the migration of the sites to a new server and databases. I mentioned this in a different post here in the forum, but there was a small subset of sites in the network that were causing lags in posting times early on. This was a hosting issue and so we immediately pulled all of those sites from that host and migrated them to a new hosting service. With large networks like this, there will always be some lag times, but in this case we felt that moving this set of sites to a new host was the best route for our users.

About the distribution reports... We have replaced the distribution reports with a new stats reporting tool in order to help protect ALL users and the network integrity from the possibility of someone signing up to SEO Link Monster and then reporting URLs to Google. We found that one small sub-set of URLs were deindexed due to one specific user reporting some URLs to Google. We're proactively moving forward to protect the entire network for everyone and to help increase its effectiveness over the long term. We continually monitor the sites, and any sites that are found to be deindexed or that are losing their original "ranking power" that they had when we bought them, we immediately remove them from the network and replace them with a site from our reserve queue. Again, deindexing of a few sites can happen over time, but we're always on top of it.

About the "n/a" text next to some of your PAST posts... We described this on the View Stats page too, under the Anchor Text columns in the tooltip. Right now, you may see some past posts that show "n/a" next to the # anchor text links and the anchor texts used. This is simply there because that specific data was not originally saved in our previous reporting for individual posts. This new reporting and stats feature now has more details than our previous one. Starting Feb 24th, we saved all of that data. For posts made after the 24th of Feb, this should show you how many anchor text links were in the successfully published article and what those anchor text keywords were.

Matt

Hi Kim,

Just wanted to clarify that the N/A's you are seeing are nothing to worry about. That's the way it's supposed to be. Any posts made prior to February 24th (I think) will show N/A because the tracking stats weren't in place at that time so there was no data to record. The links still went out prior to February 24th. They just weren't tracking them yet like they are now so you'll see N/A's on all posts prior to that date.

I just wanted to clarify that's the way it's supposed to be and it's not some sort of error or anything they are trying to hide.

Honestly, I hope the initial growing pains can be ironed out because I do think they have an amazing product. The first few days were unbelievable for moving my rankings. And I love the look and feel of the site, the member's area, the ease of use, etc.

I personally just need some answers as to why I can't find any of my posts in the Google index anymore.

All these types of sites want to "protect the network", but I honestly don't see how that's possible. If they don't give you the links directly, you should still be able to find the posts by searching for the title or by searching Google for a unique sentence/phrase/indentifier in the body of your article.

If you find the post in Google, you find the site it's on. So I really don't know how the sites can be hidden from or protected from anyone who truly wants to find them.

Thanks Matt, Derek,

I have to tell you Matt, I really want SEOLM to be what it's advertised as - my feeling was you guys would do the whole syndication network idea right, but between my own experience, and what I'm reading, it seems more and more a marketing / profit effort, and less a quality implementation.

I'm going to hold off on requesting a refund in the hopes it shakes out to be as good as I expected from you guys.

Kim

I would be cautious. I tried them out for three + weeks on two sites. Both of them took major steps backwards after being established on page 1-2 for more than a year. In my opinion, this service cannot hold a candle to Build My Rank.

Whoops I think I signed up for this too early should have come here and read the posts. I will get a refund from Clickbank.

I had major "Warning" signs when they did not one but three upsells before you could get into finding out what its all about.

I feel a bit disappointed as I thought Matt & Brad were some of the 'good guys' around. Oh well just shows you - I will be removing them from my email list.

Hey Matt,

I tried best to follow all your instructions for SLM.

But it have not helped me in any ways and so i am completely unsatisfied.

I have requested for refund on Clickbank.

Order No :- 55X2EJHB

Please do needful.

Thanks

This is a Review and Rating thread so here is my take after using SEO Link Monster.

I joined on the day prior to launch.

I expected the offered bonus to be available but it was not - and nowhere did the members site say when it would be available (that I could see) - but that was no big deal for me..

On 2/10 I heard from someone on another forum that they had checked indexing rates of the sites their articles had posted on and from the 65 domains he checked, 35 were not indexed.

I immediately checked mine and found that only 3 of the domains I had posted to were not indexed.

On 2/15 I noticed that my posts had not happened so I sent a ticket to support asking what was happening and also how to get the bonus links.

I was reponded to, very quickly I might add, and the answer was that..

a) there had been a glitch in the system which was fixed and they would make up the missing posts with a double submission for two days. This they did exactly as promised.

b) the bonus links would be on a different network that was being setup and would be available by March and I would be notified. It is March and have heard nothing.

I carried on posting and changing articles and watching my rankings carefully.

By 2/29 I had seen no increase and decided to, once again, go through and, given the changed system that doesnst show the blogs, find my articles via search based on the title - and I also had recorded the domins used for the first couple of days.

I could only find 3 articles of the 100's posted and the domains that I knew were deindexed.

I wrote to support asking, basically, if someone can give me a good reason as to what I was seeing so that I could contine being a customer. Some sort of proof that my new articles were adding SEO value to me.

The answer, from support, on 3/1 reitereated what Matt said on his posting in this thread (on 2/27) that someone had snitched to Google, sites had been deindexed, the changes were to protect the network, etc.

A reasonable answer, but one that completely failed to show me any sort of proof that my new articles were going to indexed sites and my posts wre being indexed.

I wrote back saying as much that I did not expect a "stock answer" but some real proof.

I recieved the reply from support on 3/1 saying that the the support person was "sorry that you think my reply was a stock answer, as I spent quite a bit of time composing it."

The wording using by support on 3/1 was, in many places, exactly the same as Matt's post on 2/27.

The answer went on to say that the network has 5000 sites in it and in three weeks I would have posted to 300 of them which is a small subset. The inference of this is that the 300 sites I posted to are the ones that were flagged as spam to Google and deindexed

Nowhere in the replies does it state that my new articles are going to sites that are indexed and are providing any value to me.

How in good conscience can I contine with a system that does not show, in any way, that I am getting what I pay for?

How in good conscience can I continue with a system who's support people are unable or unwilling to answer a direct question with a direct answer (the support person claiming to have spent a lot of time composing an answer using pre-written content kinda pissed me off).

I once again checked my rankings today and found no upward movement - in fact, just the opposite. Not only that, I have seen a huge 50+ place drop on other sites I have on the same hosting. Is this coincindence, maybe, maybe not.

I asked for a refund today.

In conclusion..:

I really wanted to stay a customer and have no problem paying good money for a good service, I just wanted the SEO Link Monster people to show I was getting good service. They could not.

I spent a lot of time on this and have ended up wasting that tme and looks like I may have received some sort of penalty that is going to cost me even more time (and money) to set straight.

I sincerly hope others are having a better time of it using SEO Link Monster.

Definately would NOT recommend.

@WahbReview,

I'm sorry that your experience with SEOLM didn't bump your rankings to date. I am at Yanik's Underground Seminar as I write this and I can't tell you how many people have come up to me here telling me how well SEOLM has performed for them and that they want more accounts!

One thing they had in common is they all have a social element to their SEO campaigns which has become increasingly apparent to be necessary after Panda 3.3. The days have gone by where ranking were as easy as accumulating links unfortunately.

Link density has also become a underlining factor and we have noticed that ONLY linking to the home page with ONLY targeted keywords increases your link density for that keyword which actually decreases the effectiveness of those links which may result in lower rankings. This however is not a penalty, just a algorithmic adjustment.

Bottom line is, SEO is changing and even though consensus is that back-linking is still a powerful and necessary tool, there are now other factors in play and the SEOs that employ that are winning with SEOLM.

Have we had some bumps in the rode? Absolutely!
Did a portion of our network become de-indexed? Yes!
Do we always do everything perfect? No! (but we try!)

We are continually working on the network, on support, doing our best to make our customers happy, so it pains me to read unfavorable reviews from customers like yourself that didn't have a good experience. But they do make me work harder, so thank you.

As for the bonus network. My promise was that it will be delivered in March. And obviously our support staff misunderstood as you did so I take responsibility for the miscommunication.

As for the de-indexing. We have taken steps to reduce the possibility of another leak to Google and are proactively working on reducing network footprints that didn't matter pre Panda 3.3 that do matter now.

But, again, I am sorry that your experience wasn't a positive one this time around and I do appreciate your comments and take them to heart.

Respectfully,
Dori Friend

I have yet to see anyone address why you can't find your titles if you do a Google "'s search. I asked support, but the best I got was "indexing may take 1 to 2 weeks" which is kind of the answer I would expect to get, but I don't think that's really what's going on.

I know some people have mentioned they can find their titles by searching Google. When I first joined SEO Link Monster, I could as well. Now I can't find any....new posts or old posts.

I've gone through random pages, picked 2 or 3 posts per page and have done searches for the title on Google and can't find any that are listed. I eventually gave up searching any more of them.

Dori and/or Matt can you address this? Provide an explanation. Send a PM? Something?

I love the look and feel of the network and loved the results I got the first few days when I was actually seeing my posts indexed in Google. But now I don't know what's going on.

I keep hearing about an 80% index rate so I don't understand why I can't find any of my posts in Google.

Is it a problem just with my account? I would really appreciate a response either here or a PM so I can figure out if it's a problem or if this is just what I'm to expect so I can decide if I should continue using SEO Link Monster or not.

Thanks in advance.

Derek,

Yeah it does take some time to get those pages indexed, but I will look into it, please email me at support and tell them to send me the ticket number. (I don't have enough posts her to PM yet)

thanks,
Dori

Hi Dori,

Thanks for looking into this for me. I've sent a note to support to pass along to you.

Derek

The sooner people realise knocking out articles all over the place on dropped URL's doesn't work the better. Need to get smarter people!!

I was not impressed. Less than 5% of my distributed report urls were ever indexed and the blogs they were on were not very clean and domains were not aged at all. All but I believe like 6 or 7 even had PR. The back end of the system was very nice and user friendly but that is as far as I would go with the pros of the network. Maybe it will improve but until then I have to pass.

Dori was extremely helpful at looking into my account in regards to my problem of not being able to find any of my submitted articles in Google if i did a quotes title search (e.g. "Article Title").

She had mentioned I appeared to be part of the group of sites that got delisted by Google.

She graciously moved me to another group. And that's the good news...

The bad news is, I'm still not seeing any change and still can't find any of my articles actually listed in Google...

So now what?

I haven't tried it, but I would be interested to see if anyone has.

One word, Xrumer.

Not 100$ a month, and does the job just as well if not 2x as good by automatically verifying your links/e-mails & doing any site you can think of. Whether it's a forum, blog, guestbook or other such as wiki

I can pump out 50,000 links in 72 hours using the program and I'm really thankful I bought it because hey, it's made me a lot of money throughout the years. Automation is key if you want to get a lot accomplished while saving your time

I have not tried it but i have heard good things.

SeolinkMonster has basically ruined a lot of peoples lives. You still have time to get your refund.

Do not let newbs like the poster above me lol. Get away with this crap.

Your reputation is only as good as your last hand shake.

At least I got my refund and at least I didnt use it on my best sites.

Seolinkmonster, you owe me a lot of money and time. I hope it was worth the damage to your reputation.

Lol I love the comment "hard niches that there is no way to rank without using blognetworks" The Callen brothers have obvoiusly never looked at the niches like finance or insurance where the serps are dominated by banks and finance companies or authority sites like the "money super market".

I'd love you to show me an example of a site in the top tens serps using blog networks for links...

I am willing to bet the top ranked sites have

1, Editorial processed links from decent directories even if you have to pay for the review.

2, Links from relevant sites in the niche with an editorial not automatically accepted process. (yes even blog commenting still works if they are not automatically accepted and the sites are relevant.

3, People who interact with and share the site on social media type sites because they are users or fans of their service.

4, Some sort of sydnication of their content such as pdfs with real information of value not one page articles with a backlink to their site...

5, Social media profiles that have not just opened up to bookmark one site post one video etc etc. For example have the time limits extended on their videos they submit to youtube. Have several posts built up over time on the web sharing networks (commonly wrongly referred to as web 2.0 by many)

6, Authors that have a history of writing content online that gets shared and interacted with...

None of these things I believe are very important factors in ranking are answered by any type of auto accept network or site and if that is where your linking efforts are mainly going too then your on your way to a fall...

Hey love you to prove me wrong

But most people who know anything worth while knowing about seo learned a long time ago if your building links with no editorial process your on the road to disaster...

People save your money put it into getting great content that other webmasters with great content would want to share or let you post to their sites. A few of these type links will do far more for your site than thousands of spun generic reading type crap people use to try and short cut their way to better seo rankings.

Then again in posting this probably will open up a debate from all the people who will say but hey this network ranked me... for this kw etc etc..

There are other factors involved in rankings like the interaction that users have with your site. There is also a honey moon period for new sites and or pages so they get a chance to get some traffic so the search engines can evaluate this interaction...

Can't believe they are still taking customers?
At least BuildMyRank showed real class, kept their customers
informed and did the right thing.
Just goes to show some people are just interested in the money

Hello!

It does look promising. Though I haven't heard many people say so. But for me, I think it's useful in helping you to fine tune anchor text diversity and focus, but most importantly to get a lot of links for a domain from various C-class IP domains. It will be work a try.

Best of Luck!

It was a complete fail for me but maybe it got better. I was one of the first to signup with the early signup offer

How's the link monster doing? any good news of having benefits presently? is it still working?

i don't try this but now i m try this for my website

Quit looking for shortcuts. This type of network doesn't work anymore. However I do know of a course you can get for around $97 that teaches you to build your own private network, which CAN work if you do it right. And keep it to yourself.

What happen to SEOLM? R.I.P?? can't log in all day today... any idea? anyone?

I'm curious, when was the last time your logged in? I thought it's been closed for months.

Brad Callen is among the best when it comes to Internet Marketers who not only create good products but are also ethical in their business practices. I have purchased several of his products and belonged to a few of his memberships sites and all live up to their promised potential.

Just watched a video for this SEO L M and almost jumped in. Then did the "see what others are saying search and here I am. Guess I'm glad I waited.